The End of the 52 Week HDR Project: Whiffin Spit

Sooooo it looks like this is the last week of my 52 week HDR project! Can’t believe it’s been a year already. Time sure flies… For the last one, I went to Whiffin Spit which is out in Sooke, BC. I was looking around the geocaching site to see where I can find some caches, and I stumbled across this place. So I loaded up some caches onto my GPS and off I went the next day. This place is beautiful! The sun was slowly going down, and it was a really easy walk on a spit, and the weather was great! What more could I ask for for my last HDR project post.

10mm, ISO 200, F9

10mm, ISO 100, F9

10mm, ISO 100, F9

I hope you all enjoyed my series! I had a lot of fun doing this project. It made me go shoot more, and it made me learn how to do HDR pictures. I don’t think I’m going to stop here though. I think I’m going to be continue shooting HDR, but I might just post pics once a month (maybe more if I end up going to a lot of awesome places), but we’ll see! Comments? Feedback? Would love to hear from you all!

No, I’m not professionally trained. I started years ago when I decided to use my student loans money to purchase a Nikon Coolpix 3100. Then I upgraded to a Canon Powershot A560. And then upgraded to a Canon Rebel XT. I took TONS of pictures using the first two cameras. Really learned how to use those cameras. Then once I knew the basics and stuff, it was easy (sort of) to transition into the DSLR. What can I say, I just like shooting :)

That’s really cool! My favorite part of taking pictures is the color and contrast, but it’s hard to capture it with my sad little digital camera.
BC looks like a beautiful area. I’ve been to Vancouver and I hope to get up there more often now that I’m moving back to Seattle.

It’s a Canon PowerShot A480. It’s a good camera for my purposes, but I do sometimes wish I knew how to go after what I see that intrigues me about a particular image. There’s more to it on the technical side than I am aware of.

For sure, it’s definitely hard to get that “shot” sometimes. But once you start shooting more, it’ll come more naturally. Some things that I found useful was to move around. Whether it’s shooting the subject from really low, or whatever… Also try not having the subject in the middle all the time. Offset it a bit, or move the subject to the side of the picture. I hope this helps, but just keep shooting! That’s the only way you can get practice :)